CUCULID^E: Cuckoos 



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CUCULID^E: Long-tailed, slender-bodied birds; yoke-toed, like the 

 Woodpeckers. Four members of this Family occur in North America, two 

 in our region. 



Res. Common Sonoran 

 deserts of western United States 

 and Mexico. In late summer 

 often ascends mountains into 

 Transition Zone. Owing to 

 reclamation of desert areas and 

 advance of agriculture the bird 

 is now practically extinct over 

 large sections of its natural 

 habitat. 



Rood-' 



S.V. Common locally, and 

 conspicuously absent over great 

 areas. It is apparently re- 

 stricted to extensive willow 

 swamps of low, hot valleys of 

 southern California and south- 

 western Arizona. 



California CUCKOO 



KINGFISHERS. Family Alcedinidae 



Two species only found in the United States, one regularly within our 

 limits. 



Southern California Res. 

 In small numbers, where 

 favorable fresh-water localities 

 are now few. Mostly along 

 coast. More numerous in mi- 

 grations. 



Arizona Chiefly a migrant; 

 doubtfully recorded as breeding. 



Belted Kingfisher 



